Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-10-12
WOMAN AND HONE
PRENTICE MILFORD breaches A
SHORT SERMON TO MOTHERS.

You see, NADINE, you've sown and now
you are reapmg There, been on your part
too much devotion to the children and TOO
little to Yourself You are an individual As
well as any one of your children. You ltlaU
individuaD call for improvement on every
side. You've been saying all these years, Il
don't care much what becomes of lie, SO that
the children have good semi of in the world.
That's ali wrong You've worked hard all
these year. nursing these boys and girls,
feeding '. clothing them, worrying over
them. huu ~ been for them mother, nurSTy
-ovrime>~ huu>ci;eeper and upper serv ant,
alti ti,iis a!nut ali. NOuve kept ynuf-e!t
hiysd Ia your house, and much out Of the
wGrd aud out Of society You haven't kept
dp with the world. You neglect your dr,rs,
and BOX like duwdy, When You do dress
ton rut on too much. When You don'ud dress,
you put ON too lItiie.
Your education in certain respects has not
gone on with that Of The children. Eluraiiot
IN this world or any other never Stnis The
education You get lion varied association
with many people is as good if not better than
that you got out of books People are books
You have toiled yourself at home into a
servant. Your children call you mother, y
but regard YOU as their servant. You've
educated them so to do and they can't help IL
They associate you only with the care of the
house, the care of the table, the washing ami
mendng. and little else. You can't think OF
talk of much else.
Your children see the difference between
you and other ladies' When you go in COM
'ra aItVaNS in !
somewhere or turning up some corner of the
family curtain that had better have been left
| turned down. For tins reason your children
are both ashamed and afraid of you. They
can't help it,
YOU say your children should have more
gratitude. You can't expect gratitude from
children till they have children of their own.
By that time its too late for their gratitude
| to be of much service to you.
Children take all their parents give them
| money, clothes, food and shelttr--,,s IA mattel
of course They think these things come as a
| matter of course until theyr re Obliged to "a
| TO work and earn them.
You've toiled yourself into prematureiy
, old woman. You complain that yuur gnls
! run over YOU" They wouldn't iun over you
| If You'd cultivated all yuur talents
Dignity is talent and you haven't cult
| waited that Command of temper Is a talent
and Won haven't cultivated that. Grace OF
bearing, address, tact, well chosen language
all these are talents, and youNe given them
ali the 20 by.
You've committed that permcious sin Of
saving nothing for yourself and everything
| or your children. Ii saying that 50 that tht
..hlldrcli's light shnne, Noud he willing to bt
:. snuiry old candle and now that you are
,nuffv old candle. and your children treat
| .-"u as one, you don't like 1t.
Ought we not to love our children better
than ourselvessn you Ash No. Love thy
nelghhor Us thyself," says Scripture. YOU
| children are your neighbois. Mart the pas
stse-~as thySelf, not better than thvself
There's a certain amount of love due from
every one TO themselves. Ii You don't loy,
| Yourself you'd neglect yourself in some way
Love doesn't mean abuse of self. 1t meata
proper care of ones self. If you don't loN,
your body You won't keep 1t properly
cleansed or clothed; if you love you
stomach YOU won't put anything III it to hun.
it: you won't put in it a bigger load than i
can carry. Ii you love your mind you'll So
that It's kept ciedt anu i'A>h'h ald bi i-h
and ready t. receive the iest Ideas that conn
tio4ling 10 it in the air
When ynu love anything SO much tina
you're wiilla- to give Yourself all away 10
its st.e, yunfe nrifln- To make "a rum "
,eif amt masking yourself l;es ami less able L
attract love, rv-i,I, esteem ami respect iron
others.
It's time we saw ali the way round som
texts in Scripture, and not half way round
Your minister out to have told YOU better
Prentice Muliord IN San Francisco Chronicle